Film Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY | July 17th, 2026

Hathaway is an awful actor, she was very poor in Interstellar. Jessica Chastain was much better. Nolan is doing that thing some directors do where they can't let go with who they've worked with.
 
I’ve always felt Nolan seems to have a blind spot casting female actors in roles. The male roles always seem to be perfectly cast but the female ones always seem to miss the mark somewhat.
 
Chairman Steve said:
I’ve always felt Nolan seems to have a blind spot casting female actors in roles. The male roles always seem to be perfectly cast but the female ones always seem to miss the mark somewhat.
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Very underwhelmed by the news. To be honest Odyssey is done to dead by Hollywood, what the feck is Nolan expecting to do better ?! He should have made the Prisoner instead..
 
PepG said:
Very underwhelmed by the news. To be honest Odyssey is done to dead by Hollywood, what the feck is Nolan expecting to do better ?! He should have made the Prisoner instead..
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What? Outside of Troy I've barely seen a film even reference Odysseus.

I've never seen Penelope appear on stage, nor have I seen any of the monsters he encounters of getting turned to sheep.

Have I missed something?
 
But my initial reaction?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Genres I will always get hyped for:

Classical Mythology/ Hellenic History
Roman Era (just not Gladiator II)
Tolkien (Though Amazon is testing my patience on this one).
 
If Nolan is the modern day David Lean like many have floated, then this project feels like his Lawrence of Arabia
 
Bold choice to cast a history podcaster as the first star on the casting list, but I can see where Nolan is going with it.
 
Can’t wait! I know Nolan will go above and beyond. Still requires a lot of luck for the end product to hit the right notes, but it won’t be through lack of trying.

Can only imagine what it must be like to be involved in a production of this scale. Do we know who’s composing the score?
 
PepG said:
Very underwhelmed by the news. To be honest Odyssey is done to dead by Hollywood, what the feck is Nolan expecting to do better ?! He should have made the Prisoner instead..
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Done to death? Really? I can’t think of many major Hollywood adaptations, certainly not recent ones. Oh Brother Where Art Thou is the only one that springs to mind, and that was a very loose adaptation. I mean the Odyssey is certainly a foundational text for all Western literature, perhaps the foundational text, but the actual story hasn’t been adapted too many times.
 
Tom Holland and Zendaya in a Nolan film is somewhat surprising to me. Where is Cillian Murphy and My Cocaine?

Anyway, Nolan is a must watch in the cinema for me. Only downright bad one was Tenet, in my opinion.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Tom Holland and Zendaya in a Nolan film is somewhat surprising to me. Where is Cillian Murphy and My Cocaine?

Anyway, Nolan is a must watch in the cinema for me. Only downright bad one was Tenet, in my opinion.
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I have a theory that Tenet was Caine's last Nolan collaboration, as the last words spoken to him in that movie were "thank you, Sir Michael".
 
So much for the theory that it was going to be a vampire film set in the 1900s - I was really looking forward to that!
 
The Odyssey

Captain Hank Homer continues to wake up in cold sweats whenever his narcolepsy takes hold. His tormented past, slowly unravelled in sequences shown backwards, sepia toned, filmed on a Nokia 3210, and each line spoken in different languages for some reason, remind him of how isolated he is aboard the cryogenic transport ship The Odyssey. It's also five hundred years in the future and Earth has been consumed by sadness, causing everything to blow up.

Captain Homer starts to track the times that he wakes up from these mad fever dreams (there's a recurring one where he's being fisted by a wasp). 3:09am, 14:01pm, 19:13pm. None of it makes sense, not even the flashback where Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy show an elderly Homer how to go forwards in time like Dr Oppositeheimer did when he didn't blow up the moon.

But Homer starts to realise that the times he is waking up at have another meaning. The numbers call to him...

3:09, 14:01, 19:13, 21:13, 9:19, 1:04, 9:18, 20:25, 2:09, 11:05.

3 9 14 1 19 13 21 13 9 19 1 4 9 18 20 25 2 9 11 5

Cinas mum is a dirty bike

Who is sending him this message? And why is it Morgan Freeman? Very soon, the fate of humanity will rest on this message being delivered to Zargle 4...
 
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AfonsoAlves said:
What? Outside of Troy I've barely seen a film even reference Odysseus.

I've never seen Penelope appear on stage, nor have I seen any of the monsters he encounters of getting turned to sheep.

Have I missed something?
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All I can think of is movies like Oh Brother Where Art Thou for instance, which are hardly adaptations.
 
simonhch said:
Always excited for a Nolan film, but have to admit that I’m pretty underwhelmed by the casting on this one. Matt Damon is okay, done some good stuff, although I’ve never seen him as an acting heavy hitter. Same with Hathaway. She’s alright, but I never considered her to be a great actor. Holland and Zendaya though, very meh. Both are just in vogue right now, both middling to poor actors who have achieved a level of fame way above their ability. Half expecting Mark fecking Wahlberg to round out the cast at this point.
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Quality actor is Mark !
 
Excited. Been craving a true historical/mythological epic for a while, Napoleon was pretty shit and we haven't had a truly great one since Troy basically.

PepG said:
Very underwhelmed by the news. To be honest Odyssey is done to dead by Hollywood, what the feck is Nolan expecting to do better ?! He should have made the Prisoner instead..
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I don't remember seeing any movies based off the Odyssey at all. Troy is based on the Illiad, but nothing with the Odyssey
 
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